TIP; Minimizing startup programs

I'm on a laptop and battery power is precious. The number of programs auto-started
whether system services or applications, consumes significant resources and
impedes the system responsiveness, especially durring boot time. My goal was
to reduce startup time and paging activity to a minimum so as to preserve as
much battery capacity as possible. The side effect of trimming of auto-starts
is a system that preforms well and actually reduces the number of 'infection-vectors'
(The path used to get malware on a system) that can be attacked.

My first pass was to trim unnecessary system service.
The System-services.txt attachment is an export from Services in tab
delimited format, which is best read in a tablular view
(eg: open with word, select all, tools->insert->table)
It is sorted on the Startup column to highlite what actions i've made.
Nicely, it also documents that while I asked for some MANUAL startups,
some of them are showing that the process is already STARTED! This
is the system reacting to a prerequisite program that was not auto-started.

Secondly, I want to to stop all auto-update programs and/or as many auto-started
applications as possible.
Using Spybot Search & Destroy, I found that I could
disable programs without fussing directly with the registry and if I made a mistake,
my actions were easiy reversed.
The Spybot.System.startup.report.txt attachment documents what I've done.
(apologies in that I know some entries were deleted and thus do not
showup in this list, eg: java-update was deleted from auto-start).
Items disable via Spybot S&D are marked (DISABLED)

I'm sure still more might be pruned from the system, but the current setup
is effective enough and I'm much better off than with the Win/XP configuration.